So, who's in town for Day 1b?

Saturday, 20 September 2008

Day 1a proved to be a fruitful day for the railbirds here in London as Daniel Negreanu put on a virtuoso performance to turn his 6,000 starting stack into 74,900. He was joined by some the game's biggest stars including Phil Ivey, Chris 'Jesus'Ferguson, John Juanda and Erik Seidel. The question on everyone's lips today is, "Who's in town today?" The answer won't disappoint.

Phil Hellmuth has registered, although he is of course doing his 'stylishly' late entrance. Others who could be bothered to get here on time include Howard Lederer, Allen Cunningham, Mike Matusow, Phil Laak (chuckling away while reading Bluff Europe magazine, no less), Devilfish, Andy Black, two of the November Nine (Scott Montgomery and David Rheem) and the Betfair Three - Sorel Mizzi, Jon Tabatabai and some Norwegian girl who did well last year.... Annette something.

'The Professor', probably doing some marking...

Day 1b has been confirmed to be better looking that Day 1a too, with Erica Schoenberg and Jennifer Tilly both playing and looking mighty fine. Today's going to be a good day for the photographers.

Tuesday is the deadline for all working Americans to have submitted their income tax returns to the federal government and Juicy Stakes and Intertops Poker are set to mark this annual occasion by holding a special freeroll competition featuring a $1,000 top prize.

“We run a lot of higher stakes tournaments for our more hard-core players,” said Intertops’ poker manager. “But since our network is generally pretty soft, we created this series to give less competitive players a shot at winning.”